Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. In addition, for many uses, energy can’t be used the instant it’s generated but must be stored for hours or days and transferred across continents or even oceans, neither of which is currently economically or technologically feasible.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Indeed, efficiencies can exceed 70 percent, more than double that of a typical solar cell. At the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It’s fairly well known by now that EVs cost far less per mile to drive than their closest ICE counterparts, and the main reason is simply that the EV drivetrain is far more efficient at converting its stored form of energy into motion. First, in the interest of clarity, let’s define some terms that we’ll use in this article.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Chambers Williams III • THE TENNESSEAN• April 26, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share Del.icio.us Alternatives that would reduce pollution include nuclear energy and renewable sources, such as wind and solar power. See instructions for fixing the problem. roadways?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. How about a car-mounted wind-generator?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. run the hardware store and buy a new one. They make them all wrong. but even that is wrong.

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